Arrogance Quotes - Page 5

• Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

  Marya Mannes

  Successful, Use, Timing

  Marya Mannes (1971). “Out of my time”

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• Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists.

  Ali Khamenei

  Vanity, Hands, America

  "The 25 Issues that Shape American Politics: Debates, Differences, and Divisions". Book by Michael Kryzanek and Ann K. Karreth, 2017.

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• Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.

  Laozi

  Accomplish, Shows, Boast

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• If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Giving, Wish, Helping

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• A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.

  Wendy Mass

  Kindness, Regret, Lying

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• The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Merit, Lacking

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• People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Divorce, People, Appearance

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• Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

  Mason Cooley

  Spring, Cutting, Rope

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• Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.

  Mason Cooley

  Wind, Play, May

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• Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.

  Max Lucado

  Men, Giving, Three

  Max Lucado (2008). “The Applause of Heaven”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end.

  Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

  Spiritual, Taken, Causes

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• Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Business, Ambition

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch and ‎John A. Byrne, 2001.

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• There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

  Margaret Mead

  Self Control, Culture, Hierarchy

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.152, Berghahn Books

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• It is our own arrogance and pride that cause pain. The more that we think that we can do anything, the less we realize our complete dependence on God, and the worse the pain becomes.

  Reshad Feild

  Pain, Pride, Thinking

  Reshad Feild (1996). “The Last Barrier: A Universal Search for Self Discovery”, Element Books Limited

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• With confidence you believe you can overcome your weaknesses. With arrogance you don't even see your weaknesses.

  Eric Mangini

  Believe, Weakness, Overcoming

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• It's nice to see arrogance humbled.

  Wellington Mara

  Nice

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• Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.

  Bob Lewis

  Covering, Excuse, Hiding

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• Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Evil, Envy

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.45, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility.

  Alan Cohen

  Humility, Spirit, Accepting

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• Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.

  Jack Gleeson

  Emotion

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.

  Kabir

  Tree, Gone, Beloved

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• We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred thousand. We have acquired an arrogance about ourselves that I find frightening. We have come to feel that we are so far apart from the rest of nature that we have but to command.

  Marston Bates

  Nature, Science, Thinking

  Horace Marden Albright, Marston Bates (1962). “The Horace M. Albright Conservation Lectureship”

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• The most fatal mistake of this Israeli military junta is that they have the complex of the arrogance of power. This is their suicidal mistake.

  Yasser Arafat

  Military, Mistake, Suicidal

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination of the leadership to protect the institution, rather than the children.

  Mark Shields

  Hurt, Children, Suffering

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• True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

  Josh Billings

  Ignorance, Reflection, Observation

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